Sentences with phrase «including grant administration»

Leadership activities include building administration, teacher committees, district policy - making including school boards, state administration including grant administration, professional standards, building assessments, program reviews, and formal assessments of student learning.

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Summit Power Group LLC, which was awarded $ 450 million in stimulus grants by the Energy Department under the Obama administration, spent $ 1.3 million on «unallowable costs» including spa service, alcohol, first - class travel, limousine services, catering on a private jet and travel expenses to attend a charity event, according to the department's inspector general.
The Trump administration had been trying to pressure Europe, Canada, Mexico and other nations to renegotiate trading terms in America's favor, including limiting the flow of foreign metals into the United States, saying that it would grant exclusions to the tariffs for countries that agreed to meet its demands.
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The 1999 grants included: $ 70,000 from Senator Dave Sullivan to renovate and rebuild the soccer fields at Patriots Park; $ 500,000 from Representative Carolyn Krause to remodel the south wing of the Administration Center; $ 100,000 from Representative Sidney Mathias to rebuild the playground at Lake Terramere Park; $ 50,000 from Representative Suzanne Bassi to renovate the athletic fields at Rand Berkley Park; and $ 130,000 from Senator Wendell Jones to renovate the walking paths at Hasbrook Park.
Prior to that, Polly provided comprehensive research and grants administration for a portfolio of externally funded projects, including a $ 3 million Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Center for Risk Science and Public Health at The George Washington University.
While Cuomo has granted fewer recent interviews to television and radio programs than earlier in his administration, he's made more appearances on national programs in 2015 — including with his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo — than in the entirety of his first four - year term in office.
Off - topic questions included the mayor's proposed budget and the potential cost of open labor contracts, a timeline for settling the open labor contracts, the Build it Back program, the administration's «comprehensive review» of the city's Sandy recovery efforts, release of Bishop Findlayter's arrest report, the mayor's September promise to visit a carriage horse stable before acting on his pledge to ban carriage horses and the administration's community development block grant application.
The IDNYC program, launched by de Blasio's administration in 2015, aimed to remove barriers that some New Yorkers face in obtaining identification — including undocumented immigrants, the homeless, transgendered individuals, and the formerly incarcerated — granting them access to important city services.
Approved $ 142.3 million for superfund / brownfield programs, including $ 120 million for hazardous waste remediation, $ 15 million for expenses related to the brownfield act, including state funded cleanups, technical assistance grants, and brownfield program administration; $ 7.3 million for costs related to brownfield and VCP oversight.
In an April 29 statement announcing his impending hire, Schwartz said that given the investigation and the administration's desire to keep the Buffalo Billion program running, «they have asked me to commence an immediate review of all grants and approvals — past, current and future — in certain programs and operations, including the Buffalo Billion / Nano Economic Development Program.»
The final authority on private astronauts rests with individual companies and with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the regulatory agency that grants licenses for all U.S. commercial flights — now including spaceflight.
The administration released two of those threats hours before the president delivered his address, including one that would kill a bill to grant automatic approval of natural gas pipelines if the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission fails to act quickly enough.
She oversees all financial activities of the Salk, including financial reporting and treasury functions, research accounting, annual budgets, procurement, grants administration and endowment / investment management.
Current research projects include a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sea Grant study of women's participation in fishery management and a National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Grant.
Storm Petrel products include software applications that aid governmental agencies with grant administration and other functions.
After the Obama administration formalized its signature policies in 2009 and 2010, those who followed (including me) were tasked with implementing those policies through various grant programs and initiatives.
And each of the 43 states to which the Obama administration has granted a waiver from No Child Left Behind is now in the process of implementing evaluation systems that employ multiple measures of classroom performance, including student achievement data.
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The Obama administration has issued new priorities for its charter - school grant program, among them support for schools that «promote diversity in their student bodies, including racial and ethnic diversity, or avoid racial isolation.»
Earlier in 2009, also through Race to the Top, the administration had offered $ 4.35 billion in funding through a competitive grant program designed to encourage states to enact the feds» preferred school - reform policies — including the adoption of better standards and assessments.
Bush has also blamed Common Core's growing unpopularity among the Republican base on the Obama administration's embrace of the standards, including their linkage to the Race to the Top grants early in President Obama's first term.
Substantial policy effort has focused on improving the educational opportunities for students in these schools, including the Obama administration's School Improvement Grants (SIG).
In fact, Congress (including Republicans now in leadership in the House and Senate) granted that authority in the Immigration Reform and Control Act passed three decades ago, while earlier administrations, including that of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, have implemented orders similar to DACA.
In granting waivers from NCLB's requirements, the Obama administration further pushed a federal agenda that included Common Core standards and more reliable teacher evaluations.
President Barack Obama's fiscal year 2010 budget request includes a $ 52 million increase in the Charter School Grants Program, providing $ 268 million and representing the first step toward meeting the Administration's commitment to double financial support for the program over the next four years.
Such reliance remains even though the Obama administration has granted waivers to 43 states as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico from many NCLB's mandates, including the law's central accountability provision.
She is responsible for oversight of all financial activities, including financial reporting, grants and contracts, compliance, risk management, human resources and general administration.
Although the FY11 budget request includes a $ 38.9 million increase in funding to support teaching and learning in the arts, history, civics, foreign languages, geography, and economics, the administration proposes to combine eight subject - specific grant programs into a single competitive grant program.
The Obama administration has encouraged the transition through several federal grant programs including the Race to the Top competition.
We at Magnet Schools of America hope that when the Trump administration release a more detailed version of this budget, it will include critical $ 200 million in funding for the Magnet Schools Assistance Program — the only federal education grant designed specifically to promote innovation, choice and diversity in the classroom.
The Education Department also on Thursday released a report on the Obama administration's $ 4 billion Race to the Top competitive grant program, describing how it ushered in sweeping policy changes in many states, including some that proved controversial, such as new teacher evaluations tied to student test scores.
As a nationally recognized leader in higher education, Dr. Ross has presented seminars, workshops and lectures in the areas of higher education leadership, budget, finance and administration to a number of universities and national organizations including the Association of Public and Land - Grant Universities, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education at Bryn Mawr College.
The administration also failed to fully address other concerns: For example, it granted Georgia a waiver in spite of concerns that it didn't include graduation rate data for poor and minority kids into its proposed accountability system, the College and Career Ready Performance Index, which effectively meant that «a school could earn a high CCRPI with low graduation rates for some subgroups».
The administration is also proposing additional investments in career and technical education (CTE), including $ 2 billion in Trade Adjustment Assistance grants to strengthen community college programs and workforce partnerships.
(District of Columbia) With the Obama administration's time in office quickly coming to a close, the U.S. Department of Education released more than $ 370 million in grants last week to support a wide variety of services including teacher training, charter schools and literacy programs.
Programs facing the chopping block include the aforementioned School Improvement Grants, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, and the Obama administration's favored Race to the Top, Investing in Innovation, and Promise Neighborhoods grant competitions.
Considering how arbitrarily the administration has granted the waivers — including allowing Oregon, Michigan and Kansas to ignore No Child's accountability rules without either having put their proposed in place or rolling them out beyond a pilot stage — one can't blame Harkin for wanting to do so.
For about a dozen states, including Tennessee, those changes began with the administration's signature competitive grant, Race to the Top, which offered states a piece of a $ 4.35 billion pie in exchange for adopting a range of significant education policy changes.
The White House claims that ESSA «includes initiatives modeled after the Administration's programs to: Establish or expand access to high - quality, state - funded preschool... building from the Administration's Preschool Development Grants program.»
Secretary Duncan's administration has included dual and concurrent enrollment in a number of the Department's programs throughout his six year term, including Race to the Top, College Access Challenge Grants, Investing in Innovation grants, Promise Neighborhoods, Youth CareerConnect, School Improvement Grants, and ESEA Flexibility WaGrants, Investing in Innovation grants, Promise Neighborhoods, Youth CareerConnect, School Improvement Grants, and ESEA Flexibility Wagrants, Promise Neighborhoods, Youth CareerConnect, School Improvement Grants, and ESEA Flexibility WaGrants, and ESEA Flexibility Waivers.
In the 2014 - 2015 year, the KIPP Foundation allocated $ 39,157,949 to program services, which include leadership and development, research, network growth, teaching and learning labs, and the KIPP through college support program for KIPP alums; $ 9,659,292 to support services, including administration and fundraising; and $ 23,479,474 in grants to schools within their charter network.
(b) In making such grants or contracts, funds made available for any year will be utilized to provide a balanced program of assistance to meet the medical, vocational, and other personnel training needs of both public and private REHABILITATION programs and institutions, to include projects in REHABILITATION medicine, REHABILITATION nursing, REHABILITATION counseling, REHABILITATION social work, REHABILITATION psychology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology, workshop and facility administration, prosthetics and orthotics, specialized personnel in providing services to blind and deaf individuals, recreation for ill and handicapped individuals, and other fields contributing to the REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals, including homebound and institutionalized individuals and handicapped individuals with limited English - speaking ability.
We will consider using ADR in all areas including workplace issues, formal and informal adjudication, issuance of regulations, enforcement and compliance, issuing and revoking licenses and permits, contract and grant award and administration, litigation brought by or against the Department, and other interactions with the public and the regulated community.
By this order, we extend for an additional 30 days the emergency exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41101 and applicable Department regulations to the extent necessary to permit, on behalf of U.S. Government charterers engaged in Haiti earthquake relief operations, indirect air transportation by GSA - approved air charter brokers, including those currently approved under General Services Administration (GSA) Special Item Number (SIN) 599 - 5, Air Charter Services - Brokers (hereinafter the «Broker Schedule»).1 That exemption, first granted by Order 2010-1-9 (Jan. 14, 2010) will expire on February 14, 2010.
By this order, we grant an exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41101 and applicable Department regulations to the extent necessary to permit, on behalf of U.S. Government charterers engaged in Haiti earthquake rescue and relief operations, indirect air transportation by GSA - approved entities, including those currently approved under General Services Administration (GSA) Special Item Number (SIN) 599 - 5, Air Charter Services - Brokers (hereinafter the «Broker Schedule»).
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced that it is accepting applications for $ 73 million in grant funding for projects that can strengthen intercity passenger rail, support capital projects and boost safety initiatives that may include the implementation of positive train control, improved highway - rail grade crossings, and congestion mitigation.
The Administration has also provided funding from a number of sources for the restoration of Denver's historic Union Station, the centerpiece of FasTracks, including $ 28.4 million from the Recovery Act, $ 59.5 million in other federal grants, and more than $ 300 million in federal loans.
The Acquisition Services Division is responsible for the award and administration of business arrangements as a Headquarters service organization, which includes contracts and grants.
Any project that includes funds awarded under section 5309 of title 49, United States Code, shall be exempt from consolidation under this section unless the grant recipient requests the Federal Transit Administration to be the lead administering authority.
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